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I received this email yesterday from Rick and Colleen, who adopted Kaos/Kayla from me a year and a half ago. I wanted to share it because so many of my blog friends helped with rescuing Kayla from Miami Dade Animal Control and taking care of her for six months until she was adopted.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYLA ( Read more... )

hello everybody. mom is worried that you will think we abandoned our website. we did sort of but not forever. me and mom moved again. we moved to a place near the home where we always lived before we moved to the country!!! we are really happy about that but mom has been too busy to update our website and tell all you peeple about it ( Read more... )

When I wrote the mission for Jenna & Snickers (.com), I defined my own personal idea of responsible dog ownership. I listed ten basic requirements that I feel our dogs deserve from us. I expanded on one of those in the post about Making the Most of Companion Identification Methods. Today, I want to expand on four more.

• to not live an isolated ( Read more... )

Here are some of the sites and tools that I currently can't live without. What are some of yours?

• GMail (duh, of course)
• Firefox
• Greasemonkey and Userscripts.org
• Google Calendar
• Google Maps

Julie, who writes The Misanthropic Shiba, has had a site about Shibas for a long time. It was one of the sites I read when researching the breed before buying Snickers years ago. Over the years it has evolved into a fancy (in a good way) site with a lot of information - a real Shiba resource - but there will never be anything quite like her ( Read more... )

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Someone on Shiba-L just pointed out this contest and I saw that NYCSR is listed as a participant.

Please vote for NYC Shiba Rescue, Inc. in Care2.com's online contest to make 2009 "A New Year of Hope for Animals." If NYCSR wins this contest, they will win a $10,000 donation! Every vote helps promote the need for pet adoption to save homeless ( Read more... )

Back home, playing in the snow meant bundling up; leashing up the dogs; tromping down four flights of stairs; and navigating slick, SALTED sidewalks (unless it was a blizzardy and then we could walk in the street) until we found a good spot to play. If we got to the dog run in time, we could play off leash. If the dog run snow was already "played ( Read more... )

Murphy is a little lover. Whenever he can, he will get on the couch and curl up nearby. I usually scoop him up and "make" him snuggle with me when I'm watching TV. I say "make" because he only does the "I am Shiba. No want snuggles," for about 3 seconds (and very half-heartedly at that) and then he settles in for a snuggly nap.


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